Controlling Page Number Word 2003 and 2007

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You can control page numbering in a Word Document?

So, you want to put a number on the bottom of your page in a Word document, but you don’t want a number on the first page and you want the second page to start with the number 1.

In Word 2003:

• Click on View from the Menu Bar
• Click on Header Footer (The Header Footer toolbar will appear)
  

• Go down to the footer by clicking on the Switch Between Header and Footer icon on the toolbar.

• Click on Page Setup

• Click on the Layout Tab
• Put a checkmark in different first page (this will allow you to have page numbers on all the pages except the first page.)

• Click OK
• Put the cursor where you want the page number on the second page footer, click on the the Insert Page Number icon

• Now, select (or highlight) the number in the footer on the second page

• Click on the Format Page Number icon

• Tell it to start at 0 (This will tell the document that the first page is 0 so the second page will start at 1)

Click on Ok and check your page numbering now.

In Word 2007

• Click on Insert from the Ribbon (The Header Footer Toolbar will show up on the ribbon)

• Click on Footer

• Select the option closest to what you want
• Click on Different First Page

• Now, select (or highlight) the number in the footer on the second page

• Click on the down arrow on the Page Number icon
• Select Format Page Number from the drop down menu
  

Tell it to start at 0 (This will tell the document that the first page is 0 so the second page will start at 1)

Click OK and check your page numbering now.

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Microsoft Word 2003 and 2007 Table Tabs

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That you can align the numbers so the decimals all line up in a table?See how the numbers in the total column do not line up?

Here’s what you do.

1. Put the cursor above the column with the numbers you want to align until you get the little black down arrow and CLICK ONCE to select the entire column.

Your column will now be highlighted.

Now, you are going to set a tab. In the corner of the window between the two rulers on the left side*, you will find a little tab box. It probably has a Black line in it shaped like an L. That is a Left tab. You are going to click on that until it changes to a decimal tab. Here is what it looks like…

Next, you are going to put your cursor over the ruler above the column you want to align by decimal and click once. This will place the tab on the ruler and align the numbers in the column you have highlighted.

Kewl, huh?

*Can’t see the ruler? Click on View and then click on Ruler.

Give it a try.



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Microsoft Word 2003 or 2007 Table Columns

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If you have a column in a table that goes off the edge of the page, there is a simple way to get it back on the page?

See how the column disappears off the right side of the page?

Here is what you do...

1. Put the cursor right above the column you need to get back onto the page until you get a little black down arrow.

2. Now, put the cursor between the last two columns until you get the little resizing arrow. It is a double line with an arrow pointing left and an arrow pointing right. DOUBLE CLICK.

The last column now fits on the page.

Give it a try.

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Microsoft Word 2003 and 2007--White space

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Microsoft 2003 and 2007 will allow you to hide the white space at the top and bottom of your document?

Here is a sample of a document in Word with the bottom of one page showing and the top of the second page showing:

When you put your cursor right on the edge of either piece of paper, you get the "hide white space" option. It will look like this:

Once you have the cursor in position so you see the "Hide White Space" option, click one time and the top and margins will be hidden. Like this:











The margins are still there, they are just hidden. This view will help you align text, graphics, tables, etc. by hiding the white space temporarily. To get it back, simply click again in the same place.



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